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Marvel: Ultimate Alliance

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Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance cover
Developers
Raven Software
Windows Beenox Shift
Publishers
Activision
Engines
Vicarious Visions Alchemy
Release dates
Windows October 24, 2006
Reception
Metacritic 82
IGDB 72
Taxonomy
Series Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance on HowLongToBeat
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance on IGDB
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance guide on StrategyWiki
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance on MobyGames
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance on Wikipedia
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
Subseries of Marvel
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2006
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (2016) 2016
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 2016

Warnings

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).
GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).

This page is for the original release. For the 2016 remaster, see Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (2016).

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SafeDisc 4 DRM[Note 1]
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Edit intro_normal.py
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\scripts\menus\.
  2. Open intro_normal.py with Notepad.
  3. Delete all lines starting with startMovie and waitsignal.
  4. Save your changes.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows

Save game data location

System Location
Windows

Video

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Italian
Spanish
Fan translation, download.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
4 Co-op
LAN play
Online play
4 Co-op
GameSpy services have been shut down;[4] see GameSpy for workarounds.

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Multiplayer GameSpy

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2000
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz
AMD Athlon XP 2000+
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 8 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 7300
ATI Radeon X1300
128 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible


Notes

  1. SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[2]

References